May 26, 2012

Remember not too long ago when the Garfield County Republicans and the Glenwood Springs Post Independent mocked the idea that any big candidate would hit the rural parts of the Western Slope of Colorado?

Remember how that made conservatives in the area feel, that extra-large dose of good 'ol boys and girls club arrogance?

All common folk Frank Moe, up in Craig had to do was send a video to the Romney team.

Mitt Romney will be in Craig on Tuesday. If he's lucky, there won't be any GarCo GOP on hand for a photo op. Well.....probably not. Press and photo ops are pretty much the only thing GarCo GOP can be counted on to do repeatedly and well.

Here's to you, Frank Moe and all the folks up in Moffat County!

via Craig Daily Press and Steamboat Today:"Craig — Frank Moe, owner of Deer Park Inn and Suites in Craig, sent Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign a video earlier this year produced by Energy America.

Along with the video was an invitation from Moe to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to visit Craig.

“We (thought) this would be a good place for him to make the point that he is (in favor of) all forms of energy,” Moe said.

On Thursday, Romney staffers called Moe and said the campaign was considering Craig as a campaign stop.

The trip was booked Friday.

Romney spokeswoman Sarah Pompei said the former Massachusetts governor will appear for a public event at 9 a.m. Tuesday downtown. Additional visit details could be released this weekend, Pompei said.

“When the Romney campaign called us, tears rushed over us because now Craig has the opportunity to tell its story to the entire nation,” an emotional Moe said Friday night...."
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"Truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."

1 comment:

jbend
said...

If the word ever got out to republican candidates that the entire west slope and northern colorado were the way to win the state, we'd have big name tickets here instead of the front range. Watch this visit from Romney have record crowds. If he was smart he'd take his bus tour either coming or going through I-70 west and hit Rifle, Silt, Eagle.